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MIDHAT AJANOVIĆ AYAN
Writer, cartoonist, film maker and theoretician of
animation, born in Sarajevo (Bosnia) in 1959. He studied
journalism in Sarajevo and practiced film animation in
Zagreb film Studio of Animation (Croatia). He was a director
of seven animated short films Between 1984 and 1992. After a
pause of 18 years he returned to practical film-making with
animated short Point of Mouth.
Since 1994 he is living in Gothenburg (Sweden) where he
obtained a degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Film Studies.
He teaches history and theory of animation at various
Swedish film schools (currently at University West in
Trollhättan).
He has published many books in various genres and in several
languages. Some of them deal with history and theory of
animated film. His most recent books are Den rörliga
skämtteckningen (Optimal Press, Gothenburg, 2009) in
Swedish, Karikatura i pokret (Hrvatski filmski savez,
Zagreb, 2008) and Animacija i realizam / Animation and
Realism (Hrvatski filmski savez, Zagreb, 2004) in Croatian,
Animazione e relismo (Animation and Realism”, Cuem, Milan,
2006) in Italian.
He worked as the organiser and artistic director of the
festivals in Podgorica (Montenegro), Zagreb (Croatia) and
Eksjö (Sweden) and was the member of many internationally
juries.
He also did some work in the field of literature, journalism
and newspaper’s cartoons. For his work, he got various
rewards at significant festivals and exhibition world-wide.
Most recent, the international festival of animated film
"Animafest 2010" in Zagreb awarded him with the special
prize for the contribution in the fileld of animation
researches.
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GEORGE SIFIANOS
George Sifianos was born in 1952 in Greece. He gained his
PhD in 1988, from the University of Paris 1, Pantheon –
Sorbonne, on thesis titled: "Language and aesthetics of the
animation cinema". As an animator he participated in a
number of projects including Tales Of The Night by Michel
Ocelot, two films Adventures Of Tutu by Pascal Dalet, Alice
by Nicolas Bellanger (won several prizes), Pedro by Igor
Leon (Prize of the UESCA), the Equilibrance advertisement
and others.
His filmography as an author includes four short animated
films Smile (1974), Scent Of City (1994), Tutu (2001), C'est
Môa (2007) and a full-length documentary Petrochemicals, The
Cathedrals Of The Desert (1981). His films have been
screened at many film festivals world wide, Mostra of
Venice, Annecy, Zagreb, Montreal, Melbourne, and Stuttgart,
to mention some of them. A retrospective of his films was
shown at ANIMFEST festival in Athens, 2008.
Sifianos is a founder (in 1994) and coordinator (1994-2006)
of the Studies in the Cinema ofAnimation, at ENSAD (Ecole
Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs) in Paris. From
1994 to the present, he has been a professor at ENSAD.
Sifianos has been a very active member of the international
animation community as a member of selection committees or
juries of the significant number of the festivals: Festival
of the Cinema of Animation of Antibes Juan-le-Pins (1985),
International Festival of the Cinema of Animation of Zagreb
(1994), Espinho (1998), Casteli Animati (2003), CICDAF in
China (2005), the International Animation Festival of
Hiroshima (2006), Balkanima in Belgrade (2006), KAFF in
Hungary (2007), ANIM’EST of Romania (2008), ITFS Stuttgart
Festival (2009) FICAM Meknes (2010) and many others.
He is a Member of Board of the International Festival of the
Cinema of Animation of Annecy, and founding member of
CARTOON (European Association of Animated films), “Animation
Campus“ FOCAL, Switzerland and several more associations and
foundations. Sifianos is also experienced in the field of
visual arts, participating in exhibitions in France and
abroad. Since 1980, many of his articles concerning the art
of animation have been published in magazines and journals.
"Looking for a Cinema close to the mental representations”
and “The symphony of the Parthenon frieze” are the titles of
his researching projects in progress.
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NEBOJŠA POPOVIĆ
Born in Kraljevo in 1958. Graduated from the Faculty of
Philology in Belgrade in 1981. Since 1982, he has worked for
the Ratio Television of Serbia, former TV Belgrade, and for
the past 25 years has been actively contributing articles
and writings about film. In 1993, Nebojša was awarded the
’Golden Seal’ annual award of the Film Institute for the
best film review.
Apart from contributing film reviews for the ’Metropolis’
magazine, he has worked as a reporter at numerous major film
festivals, and for a number of years now the national
television – RTS – has been featuring his programme ’Drugi
vek’ (’Another Century’), dealing with film phenomena (meta
– films as a genre and manner of expression, Serbian film
debutants, Hamlet in films, football and film, Serbian film
critics …), as well as important figures and phenomena at
the world film scene (Wim Wenders, Ken Loach, Ken Russell,
Hermano Olmi, Phillip Noyce, Costa Gavras, Andrzej Zulavski,
Istvan Szabo, Lena Endre, Pupi Avatti, Rajko Grlić...) and
national cinematography (Srdjan Karanović,Dejan Zečević,
Boris Mitić, Rade Vladić, Svetozar Cvetković, Slobodan
Šijan, Nebojša Glogovac, Mirjana Karanović, Petar Božović,
Branka Čeperac, Gordan Mihić, Miljen Kljaković...).
A part of the serial is dedicated to European
cinematographies (Israel, Norway, Finland, Russia, Spain,
Hungary, Iceland, Slovenia, Holland ...). Nebojša has been a
member of the official juries and film critic juries at
national and international film festivals, as well a
selector of around twenty festivals dedicated to significant
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ANIMANIMA 2010 - Selection Commitee |
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MILOŠ TOMIĆ
Miloš tomić was born on 05.02.1976. in Belgrade. During high
school he went to "Kvadrat" film school run by Zoran and
Svetlana Popović. He was a contributor of the "Beautiful
Rhythm of the Heart" radio show, 1993 - 2002. Graduated at
the Academy of Art (Directing major) in 2001. in the class
of Miša Radivojević. He was a guest student in Madrid and
Berlin. Finished graduate studies of animation in Prague, at
Famu, in the class of Petar Skala. Currently at the doctoral
studies, thesis on "Preciousness of discarded objects, i.e.
trash as the material for film, photography..."
His films and music videos MOTHER’S LITERATURE, SKIRTER,
CLAY PIGEON, HAIRS, SPITTED BY KISS, PLASTIC BAGS, STRONG
AGAIN, SUPPORT IS IMPORTANT, MUD, INDIVIDUAL were multiply
awarded at the film events and festivals in Serbia and
abroad (Prague, Karlovy Vary, Bratislava, Ljubljana, Athens,
Barcelona, Milan, Petersburg...). More at www.milostomic.com
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MARKO STOJANOVIĆ
Marko Stojanović was born in 1978 in Leskovac, where he
still lives and works as a high-school EFL teacher. Marko
has been in charge of the Leskovac comic art school, “Nikola
Mitrović Kokan”, together with Srđan Nikolić-Peka. He is a
cartoon author himself and a translator of comic books
(Hellboy, Hardboiled, Raptors, Sky Doll).
Marko is the author of scenarios for a number of comic
books: Maks Debris, Crne duše, Postelja od gloga, Rekvijem,
Pasiji životi, Prah, Pepeo, Bajka i druge istine, Le Dico
des Hommes, Le Dico des Femmes, Les 69 secrets à savoir sur
les Femmes, Les 69 secrets à savoir sur les Hommes and the
series entitled Vekovnici (published by the renowned
‘Politikin Zabavnik’).
He is one of the administrators of the UPPS website
(www.upps-sajt.com), where his weekly column fittingly
entitled ‘Southern Comfort’ has been appearing for eight
years now, including the period when it was published at the
Internet weekly comic news (‘Strip Vesti’). His other
accomplishments include a collection of essays on comic art
also entitled ‘Southern Comfort’ (“Južnjačka Uteha”),
published by the Cultural Centre in Niš. He is also engaged
as the editor-in-chief of the Niš-based comic magazine Strip
Pressing, as well as the editor of the comic in the magazine
Think Tank from Leskovac. Stojanović was the initator and
co-organiser of the Balkan Festival of young comic art
authors, as the oldest comic art festival in the region of
former SFR Yugoslavia.
His texts and comics have been published in a number of
magazine in Serbia and abroad. Stojanović is the winner of a
number of prizes and awards, including: best young Balkan
artists in the domain of comic art theory, in 2007, best
script writer at 6. International Comic Art Salon in
Belgrade in 2005, Grand Prix of the Seventh International
Comic Art Salon in Veles (together with the cartoon artist
Srđan Nikolić-Peka), in 2009. |
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IVAN ARANĐELOVIĆ
Ivan Aranđelović (born 1979), producer and journalist,
graduated from the Faculty of Drama Arts (FDU) in Belgrade,
at the Department of Film and Television Production. His
took his first steps in journalism as a high-school student
on Vrnjačka Banja, and he continued as a journalist in
Belgrade, working for the radio stations ’Akademac’, ’City’
’Idea’ and ’Index’, where he produced several programmes
about film. A former journalist of the ’Film’ magazine and a
collaborator of the ’Sat TV Video / Film Reporter’ for
several years, since 2005 he has been working as a film
journalist for the daily newspaper ’Politika’. During the
studies, he worked as a PR manager for the distribution
house ‘Bandur Film’ and he also worked as the executive
producer for the Film Scenario Festival in Vrnjačka Banja.
Since 2008, Ivan has been a member of the Organisational
Board of the European Film Festival at Palić. He is involved
in the production and organisational aspects of several
festivals in the country and the wider region. |
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